Hearing this, Gou Ansheng fell silent for a moment. "If not for Langya, perhaps it truly wouldn't have come to this. But everything they offer is free, and their service surpasses ours by far! Even I, if I ran into trouble, would rather choose the Langya Foundation!"
To put it bluntly, without comparison, there was no hurt.
Liu Yanshuang frowned. "What is Langya thinking? They won't even make money when it's right there to be made? Are they really taking a complete loss just to make noise?"
Gou Ansheng shook his head, a bitter smile tugging at his lips. "A loss? Right now, the Langya Merchant Association's prestige is blazing like the midday sun. Its reputation is far better than that of our Three Great Merchant Associations combined! The earnings of our branches across the major islands are shrinking almost every day. More than seventy percent of cultivators choose the Langya Merchant Association first when purchasing cultivation resources! And all they have paid is one percent of the merchant association's profits!"
As soon as these words were spoken.
Tang Qian and Liu Yanshuang both fell silent.
The Northern Darkness Sacred Ground had close ties with the Langya Merchant Association, so this vast sea region had always been considered the Langya Merchant Association's home field. It had originally controlled nearly ninety percent of the business across the entire sea.
Only the leftover scraps could be divided among the other factions.
Yet even that had been enough to leave them eating until their mouths dripped with grease.
But in recent years, the Three Great Merchant Associations had joined forces and entered the North Sea, steadily expanding and launching all manner of commercial competition.
They had forcibly snatched away quite a bit of business from the Langya Merchant Association.
The situation had gradually